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Replacing the much lamented 'On My Mind' profile option, this thread is for musings, jottings, whimsies, preoccupations and the rest of the thesaurus for anyone to jot down anything they please.


I can't remember what the maximum character count was before, can anyone else? But anyway it wasn't very many so let's keep to that.

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That's too funny, cwillie. My 71 y/o SIL mom lives there and they are heading slowly ride to her 95th birthday. She and her beau live there still in Independent Living. So SIL there more than my daughter can be with a position working in a school. Now she's free and this is first car versus plane trip, taking some things to the condo. She loves the heat and sun. Just loves it and we are different that way. But she will get plenty of winter time there now for the first time, and they will enjoy this.
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I think your daughter is confused Alva, she's supposed to winter in AZ and spend the summer somewhere cooler🤪
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So happy for you Alvadeer!! 🥲
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My daughter is visiting. So nice. I normally would be there in Washington State for a month, but this is her retirement and they are on a road trip to their condo in AZ. I likely won't leave home and leave N. alone anymore; not after that stoke he pulled in October. So it is wonderful to see "the kids". Those retired children are now 63 and SIL (such a GREAT guy) is 71. They will be back here again in August. Just basking in the love. Absence in this case has definitely made hearts fonder.

I made so bold as to expose my almost healed radiation burn and she was appalled, and here was I saying "Wait; it look GREAT compared to what it WAS". Alas. I should have played it for sympathy but anything that was a real burn sore is now healed, and it just looks like the sunburn from Hades. Am getting full range of motion back with exercises, so this is my medical update also.

We are having good weather for the visit, and this having been home for them both they have still many friends from when they were kids working Bill Graham's Rock Concerts. SIL has the posters from so many great one. All framed across the entire walls at their staircase.

Frieda, the no-longer-a-"foster"-dog, is so thrilled having more people to drop chips or slices of pork fajita on the floor. She's just the tail that never stops wagging. It has been so good to finally accept we must adopt her; you feel so much more free to fully invest your love when you know you don't have to give them up. We have loved adopting out dogs, and followed many to their old age and passing. But it is always wrenching to give them on to new homes, even when you get to baby-sit them in future.

Having a great visit and am just soaking it up!
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Llama, I actually had to it look up, make sure I haven't been spelling breathing wrong, my whole life. 😂
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Edit: *breathing*
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Thanks Golden great advice!

Alva, I forgot, I did use to do the Xs tables to get to sleep, I forgot until you mentioned the word, thing.

I also use to name , kinds of ice cream or candy bars.
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Daisy and Llama -I find 4-7-8 breathing helps. (4 in, hold for 7, breathe out for 8)
Alva -that would wake me up!My mind would work harder.

As a child, I used to be able to "tune" into music in my head and fall off to sleep that way. May be worth practicing it again.
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Daisy,
Another sleep trick. Do alphabet letters and make words that are alike but mean different things and are spelled differently.
Awl-all, bee-be, cain-cane, dew-do-due.
You will be asleep in no time. Would be extra challenge for you! And either fun or drive you nuts, right?
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Llama, it really does help, and the more you practice the easier it is.
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Daisy: True - sleep breatheing.
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Thanks Alva, I have heard this is a common issue, also for 10 years, I worked in a hotel cooking breakfast for 200 plus people at 5 am. So I accept that I'm just gonna be a morning person.

About April I started waking up at 4 AM, in a complete panic attack, that's because things were just not right with hubs. I'm trying to get in a better sleep pattern. Learning to breath myself back to sleep, much of the time.
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Daisy, It you look up sleep patterns one very very common one is the waking at 4 a.m. one. Who knows, perhaps we are still farmer/hunter/gatherers in our heads. Many famous people (Martha Stewart, too) get up at that hour and do the productive work that included writing, letters, bill paying and etc. I myself often will put on a podcast if that happens, which quickly puts me back to sleep with gruesome true crime stories. My partner has the 4 a.m. worries, and is often up at that hour with his mind, particularly when a young and struggling Dad alone raising two girls, going in hystericalizing spins of all the awful things that "could happen" to his girls if he failed to keep them safe and cared for. So not unusual this. I am afraid we have to dub you completely normal. Look up sleep patterns and you will see!
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Why is it if I wake up at 4 am , feeling wide awake, like I could jog around the block, then if I get myself back to sleep and wake up at 6ish It takes me forever to wake up

Makes zero sense.. 😖

BOJ so so happy for you!!
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just want to say,
someone said to me they hope i get my man and that he would be blessed to have me.

that’s so sweet, thanks!

he’s awesome. we laugh like crazy together. we’re both shy, and neither of us has confessed our feelings…

we shall see.
🥰🥰🥰⭐️⭐️⭐️
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Well done you Margaret!
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Margaret, moving even down the street is a pain in the butt. I realized I have so much junk even when trying to not collect it! Moving is a great way to downsize and have garage sales although not as many people are into them with the economy being rough.
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Margaret: Good to see you.
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Margaret, Good to have you back after what has to be one challenging move.
Tell us why you moved, and what you love about where you are, what you miss about what you were. And good luck in all the downsizing. I have loved downsizing my life and am still at it.
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Oh my, Margaret. That's a lot of work!!!

I did a lot of tossing donating etc before I moved to the condo and am still finding things I want to get rid of.
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Holy smoke that's a big move Margaret, are you somewhere closer to civilization now?
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We’ve moved into a new house, 1500kms from the farm. DH couldn’t do a good sort at the move time, it was all packed into containers, now being unpacked. The sort now is almost the same. “Treasure stuff, keep, throw, move on.."
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Overwhelmed, drowning,
Treasure stuff, keep, throw, move on..
To new begininings

🪆🎻📚🪑🪏🍽
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PLOT TWIST!!!!
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dear venting,

when something goes wrong in your life, just yell out, "PLOT TWIST!" and move on.
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Thanks!
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Ventingisback, sounds like you are under a horrible amount of stress. Hang in there and breathe, don't forget to breathe!

My neighbors PTSD dog, taught me that.
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THANKS!
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you’re doing great!! keep up the great work!!
🥰🥰🥰🌸🌸🌸
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